About the Artwork
Woman Reading a Letter
between 1775 and 1780
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French
French
Red chalk on cream laid paper
Image and sheet: 6 5/16 × 4 7/8 inches (16 × 12.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR134
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Watermark: [grape cluster]
Provenance
W. H. Fanning. 1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909, Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA) (as by Jean-Baptiste Greuze [q.v.])
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Heil, Walter. "Some French Drawings of the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (January 1931): pp. 37-41, p. 37.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 334, no. A87.
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French, Woman Reading a Letter, between 1775 and 1780, red chalk on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR134.
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